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Engaging the Past
Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
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Examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers
Author / Editor information
Alison Landsberg is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History and the Department of Cultural Studies at George Mason University. She is the author of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture.
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The book is carefully structured, sensitively expressed, and the analysis of thevarious media a contribution to thinking differently about cinematic uses ofpast.
Ann Gray, emerita professor of cultural studies, University of Lincoln:
Alison Landsberg skillfully penetrates one of the most interesting yet elusive questions about popular representations of the past. What kinds of knowledge of the past do they offer? In elegant and precise analyses of selected texts, she demonstrates how they engage affect and emotion through experiential modes of communication. Contrary to many assumptions about such forms, Landsberg brilliantly argues that these reenactments have the potential to provoke self-conscious historical thinking much sought after by more conventional historical modes of communication.
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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1. THEORIZING AFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT I N THE HISTORICAL FILM
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2. WAKING THE PAST THE HISTORICALLY CONSCIOUS TELEVISION DRAMA
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3. ENCOUNTERING CONTRADICTION REALITY H I STORY TV
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4. DIGITAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE PAST VIRTUAL HISTORY EXHIBITS
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CONCLUSION
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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eBook published on:
June 2, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780231539463
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Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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232
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20
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<B>20 b&w photographs</B>
eBook ISBN:
9780231539463
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